Cocoon grass

Cocoon grass

(notes on materia medica)

[source] it is the whole plant of Braconidae.

[plant morphology] chrysalis

Perennial erect herbs, up to 1 m high. Stem brown, single or branched, nodes usually expanded, leaves lanceolate, 6-12 cm long, 1-1.5 cm wide, apex acuminate, both sides with hair and small glandular points, sometimes glabrous, but veins and leaf margins often have close bristles; Stipule sheath tubular, outside also have close bristles, edge eyelashes longer. The inflorescence is spicate, over 10 cm long; the bracts are ciliate, with 4-6 flowers inside, and the pedicels extend out of the bracts; the perianth is 5-lobed, white or light red, 2.5-6 mm long; the style is 3. Achene ovoid, protruding on both sides, about 2 mm long, black and smooth, all enclosed in the persistent perianth, flowering in September to October.

Wild in ditches or roadside grass. It is distributed in Jiangsu, Anhui, Zhejiang, Fujian, Sichuan, Hubei, Guangdong and Taiwan.

This product is used as Polygonum hydropiper in Sichuan. See "Polygonum hydropiper".

[nature and taste] notes on materia medica: "it is pungent, flat and non-toxic. "

Functions and indications: materia medica notes: "the main silkworm and insects bite, fear of poison into the abdomen, boiling juice to take it. The raw and tamped wound. "